Quote of the Day 5-2-16 (Leo Tolstoy)

“In our fear . . . to tear ourselves away from the conditions that ruin us, merely because the future is not quite certain, we resemble the passengers of a sinking ship who, for fear of stepping into a boat which will take them to shore, retreat to their their cabins and refuse to come out; or those sheep which, out of the fire which has enveloped the whole yard, press close to their pens and do not walk through the open gate.”